Nancy Hinton

The joy’s of Quebec’s wild, indigenous ingredients

By Nancy Hinton on June 12, 2008

The fiddleheads have been coming in by the potato sac this spring, officially kicking off the season of wild edibles in my kitchen at Les Jardins Sauvages. For those of you unfamiliar with Les Jardins, it’s a food and restaurant partnership between myself and my forager-par-excellence partner François Brouillard, a foremost field expert on Quebec’s wild ingredients. We’re located just on the way to Rawdon—about 45 minutes drive from Montreal...

What Leonard taught me about food

By Nancy Hinton on May 15, 2008

Leonard Cohen taught me this about cooking:  Do not judge.  Just do your thing.  Try and please the person on the receiving end, the consumer of your art, whoever he or she is without any expectations of appreciation...